Lot 52
  • 52

Rembrandt Bugatti

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Braque debout
  • Inscribed R. Bugatti and indistinctly dated 190(?), stamped with the foundry mark Cire/Perdue/A.A. Hebrard inscribed
  • Bronze
  • Height: 12 1/4 in.; 31 cm
  • Conceived and cast circa 1904.

Provenance

The Sladmore Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

(Possibly) London, The Sladmore Gallery, Two Centuries of Animal Sculpture, 1971, no. 119
Paris, Galerie Paul Ambroise, 1975
London, Royal College of Art, 1979
London, The Sladmore Gallery, Rembrandt Bugatti, An Exhibition of Sculpture, 1988, no. 3, illustrated in the catalogue p. 31

Literature

Mary Harvey, The Bronzes of Rembrandt Bugatti, 1885-1916, Ascot, 1979, no. 10, illustration of another cast p. 28
Philippe Dejean, Carlo-Rembrandt-Ettore-Jean Bugatti, New York, 1982, illustration of another cast p. 217
Jacques-Chalom des Cordes & Véronique Fromanger des Cordes, Rembrandt Bugatti Catalogue Raisonné, Paris, 1987, illustration of another cast pp. 48-49, 
Véronique Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti Sculpteur: Un trajectoire foudroyante, répertoire monographique, Paris, 2009, no. 102, illustration of another cast p. 270
Véronique Fromanger, Rembrandt Bugatti, Sculptor, A Meteoric Rise, Paris, 2016, no. 105, illustration of another cast p. 290

Condition

The medium is bronze with brown patina. The piece is on a marble base 1 inch heigh. The work is in very good overall condition. There is minimal rubbing to the extremities and minimal surface dirt. The work presents very well.
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